Shaquille O’Neal has single-handedly put the down-and-out pizza franchise Papa John’s on a better road to success. He and Papa John's execs announced a bevy of partnerships on Friday, including O'Neal taking a seat on its board. Shaq’s moves show he’s as savvy a businessman as he is a champion NBA player. Few saw this coming, except execs at Papa John's, whose stock has been under considerable...
Canadian air traffic controllers showed support for their American peers who are working during the partial US government shutdown by sending them pizza. The Canadian Air Traffic Control Association units in Newfoundland and New Brunswick ordered 32 boxes of pizza for their counterparts in the New York Air Traffic Control Center in Long Island on Friday (Jan. 11). It was a welcome gesture of...
A Lightning Network (LN) user reported that he or she has completed what may be the first transaction in which the LN was used to purchase physical goods. The Lightning Network Just Had Its ‘Pizza Transaction’ On Saturday, Reddit user btc_throwaway1337 posted a picture of an AR300M VPN Router and revealed that he or she had purchased it from TorGuard using the LN mainnet. As CCN reported...
Although not a completely new idea, Wayforpay.com has announced that it will begin allowing bitcoin payments for food delivery. Wayforpay is a Ukrainian payment platform with online shopping carts for websites. The company is growing with the announcement that it will add Bitcoin as a payment option to the EcoPizza website. The site does not accept bitcoin directly. The payment platform converts...
This is my official, first-person review of the website PizzaForCoins.com, which allows you to buy pizza with Bitcoin from the three largest pizza chains worldwide, instead of using paper currency. The thoughts and views expressed here are not necessarily shared by CryptoCoinsNews.com and are the opinions of the author, Evander Smart, alone. Being a old boy from Brooklyn, NY, and therefore having...
Thursday marked the four year anniversary of the initial Bitcoin Pizza Day. You can read about it here at our article which was featured by Business Insider and Tech Crunch. May 22 is a big day in Bitcoin history. In 2010, Florida programmer and BitcoinTalk user Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza. This transaction is famously known throughout the cryptocommunity as the first...
This is for you skeptics that didn't believe people would use Bitcoin as a payment system for normal products and services. The reddit user G1lius posted an update about the Belgian version of takeaway.com, Pizza.be, receiving more than 2% of their total orders in Bitcoins! This is amazing news and clearly demonstrates that Bitcoin works as a payment method for normal goods and services. Now...